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If they can really make an affordable model this would be great. Have talked to too many talented developers that shy away from learning/working on iOS projects solely because of how expensive the necessary hardware is. Really hope something comes of this!
They’d probably take the M1 Air, make it smaller, put a lower-quality screen on it, a single USB-C port, and call it good. And it would still be plenty good for most people.
they could make them out of plastic again, I would love to see that honestly
single usb-c port oof. how to plug in mouse wirhout dongle?
im assuming you mean the single usb-c will double as the charging port
Yeah whatever this ends up being, I imagine it’ll be pretty boring.
I really would hope they don’t make the screen worse.
Well, for most people who have never used Macs, a 1080p 100% sRGB display would be adequate. But then again, macOS’ lack of subpixel aliasing would make it look like crap compared to identical Windows computers.
Yeah, macOS at 1080p is hot garbage
Don’t underestimate Apple or their customers.
Remember that as late as 2019 Apple users were still earnestly buying the Macbook Air, which at that point featured an appalling 6-bit 1440x900 TN screen from 2010 and a dual core 5th gen Intel processor from 2015 (Apple was forced to finally discontinue it around the time Intel launched their 10th gen mobile processors). With a whopping 128GB of storage (unchanged since 2010!) it retailed for the ultra-low price of $999.
Oh I know. I waited until the M1 before getting a MacBook because that screen was a dealbreaker. Love my M1 air though
M1 Air is already new in box for $750, the price point of what your describing would probably be similar. If they did it for $699 they would probably sell a lot of themes
And launch it at $899 msrp. A whole $100 cheaper than what the M1 Air launched for!
If that weighed less than the M1 Air too, I might consider this an upgrade.
You are describing the 12" Macbook, but with an M1 SOC in it.
If it wasn’t for the butterfly keyboard I would buy that.
I actually see those in airports with some frequency, and I’m always struck by how much more sleek and futuristic it looked years ago than new models now. Yes that came with issues, and the thing was slow, but without keyboard jams and an M3 processor it would be very quick and ultra portable.
Same here.
I’d consider the same, so long as it also had mag safe or at least a 2nd usb port. family member had one with a failing usb port (data only, though it would still charge), and all apple could do was send it to depot for a board replacement. this of course wiped the drive… the issue at hand was that due to data not working, their time machine backup was nearly a year old… non techy, so they didn’t know or expect any of that, just signed off saying “yes, I have a backup”, not even thinking of how old. adding a 2nd port would significantly reduce strain on the one and only port available for the machines power and data.
So, just like an m1 air from like 3 years ago.
You may be correct. They will put micro-LED into their flagship MacBooks.
The “SE” MacBook may rely with normal LED they use on older models.I am sure they have finished design at the studio. But at the end it is up to business team to see if it makes business sense for them. My feeling is that it may be not making much sense at the moment when “cheaper” models are generally older generations of their products.
You can still buy their MacBook Air with M1 from 2020. That is nearly 3 1/2 years old computer. There is no need for them to cheapening the brand at the moment.
If only Apple actually discounted their old models. $150 off for a 3 year old laptop sucks.
Take the 13-inch MacBook “Pro” and turn it into the “13-inch MacBook” with an older design and previous gen chip and slap on a $600-$800 price tag and call it a day.
Just give the iPad a Samsung Dex-like mode that can be enabled on the normal display, make a more affordable keyboard+trackpad option and call it a day.
Stage manager is okay but needlessly clunky. Just give me actual windows that I can move/resize at my own leisure.
PLEASE let it be a tiny (12") macbook like the old one. Would sell like mad, and even the M1 these days has plenty of power for most tasks.
I think that would eat into iPad sales and they don’t want that.
As long as it’s not priced like the old one. The 12 inch made no sense at its price point. It costed as much as a pro.
M1 is enough for ~80% of users, even if they‘d never admit it.
Even running material simulations for work is plenty good on my M1 Pro. I can’t see any reason to upgrade any time soon
All I want is a 27 inch iMac.
Best I can do is four more iPad models
$599?
$799?
Define low-cost.
Perhaps a tablet hybrid that runs iPadOS? Then it’s not a “Mac”.
I hope they can make these cheap enough that schools would adopt them. I’m tired of Chromebooks
I would buy an $800 12 inch MacBook with M1 instantly lol.
So Apple is going to get into the Chromebook business? I guess there really is no such thing as having enough money for some people. They are already killing their reputation for quality. Might as well also kill that reputation for “premium” I guess.
They’re really coming to grips with how far they outkicked their coverage with the A chips.
Without gaming, without the business server market, there’s no one to upgrade m2s and m3s to on a yearly cadence. The M1 is already ridiculously powerful for most of their customer base. A CPU this powerful should have shook up the industry, instead it just dragged all their long term customer purchases forward to a single year thereabouts and then back to normal.
If anything, their conquest sales will take a hit for lack of Windows support.0
That’s not entirely true. My family and I always used a windows computer. My wife had an old intel MacBook Air because it had some program she needed. It was slow even with the i7 and was expensive for what she got. Programs like Microsoft Office were awful on it and I hated how everything in it was different.
Then my wife upgraded to the M1 MacBook Air and it was powerful and fast and could do the vast majority of anything I needed including a normal version of Office. Now I have an M1 MacBook Air and so does my Dad. Also, it is pretty well integrated with my iPhone and AirPods, which was a really nice touch.
They really turned it into a machine that was powerful and able to do anything I needed, for what is now a good price.
That’s my point alright! Thank you!
I remember the days when one bought a Mac for macOS. The hardware was inconsequential. Now, the HW is the selling point. macOS … well, is used to be insanely great.
I find it odd that Apple offers 4 iPads with a screen between 10.2" and 11," so the clearly see that size as popular, but the smallest screen size mac is 13.3," and they’ve had smaller sizes in the past such as the 11" MB Air, the 12" MacBook, etc.
Apple and. .Low Cost can never be in the same sentence.
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